Otto Wittmann was the associate director and then director of the Toledo Museum of Art (1946-1977). Under his directorship, the museum became a world-class institution. During World War II, Otto Wittman served as a special intelligence officer for the Art Looting Investigation Unit where he was responsible for the discovery and restitution of artworks looted in Europe during the war. After his retirement from the Toledo Art Museum, Wittmann went on to serve as a board member of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and became chief curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He was a founding member of the National Council on the Arts, as well as an advisor to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty

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Forms of part: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)

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